Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina may be warming up that vice president seat.
The Republican National Committee has tapped Fiorina as its Victory Chairman. In this role, Fiorina will travel about the country, celebrating the glories of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Fiorina has worked for other Republican big-whigs …

Kidding?

Oh. Wait. Yes it is. So it's possible. I guess they really do deserve whatever government gets in. I just hope that the rest of us deserve whatever the Americans decide to inflict on more civilized places.

Trigger change.

Yuck.

Pretexting Scandal was not Initiated by Fiorina

Kidding is confusing which power-mad female board member was behind the pretexting scandal.

Fiorina was canned in February 2005. The board investigation which caused the pretexting scandal was started in response to a CNet article about an HP board meeting almost a year later under new CEO Mark Hurd.

The woman behind the pretexting scandal was HP board chair Patricia Dunn, ironically the same woman who conspired to get Fiorina fired, and who became HP's board chair by ousting Fiorina.

Slow down

American "public memory" LOL

The American public's memory is about 30 seconds long for most stuff unless it involves a "wardrobe malfunction." Nobody outside of IT or corporate execs who'd vote Republican anyway (their kids have college paid for, don't need to serve in the military...) have any idea who Fiorina is.

They'll have huge cost savings when she outsources most government paper-pushing functions to India. Then there'll be a scandal when it's discovered that the outsourced immigration personnel fast-tracked H1B and student visas in exchange for small gifts.

Patricia Dunn will be scooped up on a pretexted then immediately classified secret telephonic warrant supposedly issued by a federal judge who later turns out to have been on vacation. But that won't come out for 30 years until it's declassified. She'll wind up as the newest resident of Guantanamo. Fiorina will personally waterboard her.

Mr Retired HP

I can only thank Bill and Dave for building a company that took such good care of us as to allow me to early retire once the EGO FROM HELL took over.

Bill and Dave made it a point to respect everyone in their employ and regularly talked with everyone in the halls and made it a point for all to know their office door was always open. Carly on the other hand, made it a point for all to know she was above them and that to fear her was in their best interest. I saw the Devil Wears Prada for the first time and thought, my josh, they made a movie about Carly!

So to conclude my little rant, I cannot and will not be a part of helping her get to a position of real power, I will be voting Democratic for the very first time if she shows up on the ticket. I still have this uneasy feeling she will be involved in McCanes administration and that may be enough to vote for Hilary...

For the Republican's next tech celebrity appointment

i have fear

Since McCain is still thought of as "maverick" and "independent" despite embarassing sucking up to the flaming fundies he once (to his credit) denounced as agents of intolerance, falling down on torture regulations, et cetera (did someone say Murkins have ADD on a mass scale?), having someone "from the business community" on the ticket wouldn't hurt his chances in November (especially if this person is female, to try to swipe votes from folks who are not thrilled with Hillary but would vote for her to put a woman in the Shitehouse). One would hope that an investigation similar to that which lacerated Mondale's runningmate Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 (there was weirdness with either her or her spouse's tax returns) would be launched into Fiorina's past business dealings but given who 0wn5 the media, who knows.